Art
LOS ANGELES — Queerness is often expressed through figuration or performance, but Surface of Color, curated by artist Paul Pescador, challenges the notion that identity must be explicit by presenting works that elude easy definition.
Announcement
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Art
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — This summer, curator and art historian Ruben Cordova organized an unprecedented four-part exhibition of Casas’s work, illustrating the singularity of the Humanscapes series and asserting Casas’s critical role as a Chicano Pop artist.
Art
DETROIT — As the saying goes: be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
Comics
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News
The fight against Renoir's paintings and their established presence in museums is far, far from over.
News
Arts Gowanus gathered its community on the morning of Saturday, October 18, for a rally to support artists who are being pushed out of a block-long group of buildings on 9th Street in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood.
Opinion
This week, the secret drone war, guerrilla action in the British Museum, the unseen Michael Graves prototype in Brooklyn, the dark ages of the internet, removing tipping from restaurants, and more.
Opinion
Lest we forget scandals of Speakers past, this week Reuters reported that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert “has reached a deal with prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty to wrongdoing in a hush-money case, his lawyers told a federal judge in Chicago.”
Film
If the 53rd New York Film Festival is any indication, the world’s filmmakers are feeling the heat.
Books
Although long recognized in the Soviet Union and later Russia as a great poet continuing in the tradition of Osip Mandelstam, Arseny Tarkovsky — father to renowned film director Andrei — has been little known to Western readers, and almost entirely unknown in English.
Art
There are five artists among the Chicago Imagists who did reverse paintings on Plexiglas between the late 1960s and the mid-70s: Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Ed Flood, Karl Wirsum and Barbara Rossi.